Driver injured as Tesla car on autopilot crashes into a tourist bus as it changed lanes on a German motorway

A Tesla electric car crashed into a tourist bus on a motorway in northern Germany with the driver claiming he had activated the car's autopilot system.
The driver of the Tesla car was injured, while the 29 people on board the Danish bus were unhurt in the incident on Wednesday, police in Ratzeburg in Schleswig-Holstein state said.
The 50-year-old driver's car hit the bus as it changed lanes outside the northern town of Gudow.
'We will now have to look into why the autopilot didn't work to prevent the crash,' police said in a statement.
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